Food and Emotional Tension

“Cues to foods that are high sugar, fat and salt create emotional tension….. Eating becomes a strategy for easing the stimulus-induced tension. This becomes habit.” David Kessler, MD

Author of ‘Your Food is Fooling You: How Your Brain is Hijacked by Sugar, Fat and Salt” and ex-FDA Commissioner, David Kessler suggests that we all take a moment to consider the emotional effects of eating junk food, as well as the physical.

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